On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 08:02:20AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 02:59:57PM -0700, Rich Morin wrote:
> > I have a luggable FireWire drive which I am considering using for
> > backups and data mobility on a variety of machines and operating
> > systems (roughly, *BSD, Mac OS X, and (eventually) Linux).
> >
> > I'd welcome any suggestions as to things to do or avoid. I'd rather
> > not get a ways down the road and discover that I need to repartition
> > the disc for some obscure reason...
>
> Unfortunately there's no FireWire support in FreeBSD yet, but once there
> is I don't see why UFS partitions wouldn't work :)
Because Partition tables are different and UFS is byte order dependend.
Mac OS X Platforms have a different byte order than FreeBSD Platforms
so it won't work in this case.
You might have a chance sharing i386 FreeBSD with i386 linux or
ppc NetBSD with ppc Max OS X - but keep in mind that you can't use
OS dependend extensions to UFS and writing may be unhealthy.
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B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de
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